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Originally Posted by nokiabot View Post
@wikiwide my house isint that big its a metere or more from my neibours house but thats only one direction but i enjoy clear pollution free air chripping of birds no honking horns and a spacious surrounding why cant a student have his wifi network?? as its my house i think nothing wrong in placing a anteena. Oh **** i even have a spare dth anteena lying around and what type of interference you taking about?? Theres no wifi miles apart not even 3g mine would be the first on the galaxy Anyway that anteena would be bit hard to be rotatable i think you know it feels great using my network sitting along the lakeside
I have three immediately close neighbours, one neighbour across a small road and another one across a larger road (that's what I mean when mentioning a neighbour 'ten meters away'). The house is small, and yet, I would gladly exchange it for something even smaller, since the current house could be called worn out: cracks in the walls, non-existent insulation, and many other small faults. But I would like a larger backyard. Some place to put sunshade, to grow native plants, to hang birdhouse or two... There are almost no birdhouses around, or I haven't noticed them.
I would like to live inside a hill, like a hobbit. I have already enough mould problems as it is, so it would not be an unexpected downside.
I can walk to a lake about two kilometers away, but there are still too many cars. And two kilometers are hardly coverable with one router, especially when I cannot risk messing around with it - I am not sure whether the hardware belongs to me or to the Internet provider.
Around this place, nearly every house has its own WiFi router - 99% of them are secure, however surprising it may be, given the old news of Google-Street-View-Cars-tapping-into-private-Wi-Fi-because-it-was-non-secure.
So, your interference-free place sounds surreal to me... As in, you are fortunate to live here, and why do you need WiFi anyway?
Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
I'd imagine it is the worlds easiest test to perform.
Just place your WLAN AP on a visible location, and then start pinging it, walking away. If you reach 300m before ping fails, you need more power or better antenna.
It's easy, yes. As long as you have clear line of sight. It may involve climbing on the roof to install it, depending on environment.
If you reach 300m before ping fails... doesn't it mean there is no need for more power or better antenna? :-/ confused
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